IMCW2013: The “4th
International Symposium on Information Management in a Changing World” will
take place at the Strand Hotel in Limerick,
Ireland, from September 4-6, 2013.
Cloud
computing has transformed the ways in which both individuals and enterprises
make use of IT services and network infrastructure within the last decade. Everything
including infrastructure, platforms, applications, software, data, and
communication is now seen “as a service”. Information, the life-blood of
scientific progress, economic growth and social development, is mostly
produced, disseminated, used, shared and re-used in digital formats nowadays.
Science, industry and business enterprises tend to become “information”
enterprises in that even “money” as matter gets converted to “bits” so as to be
stored digitally in computers and transmitted as “information” over the
network. Enterprises have tended to spend well over 70% of their time and money
to support the information technologies (IT) and network infrastructure. Now
they embrace cloud-based services to manage information more efficiently and
effectively. As information managers we must now look Beyond the Cloud,
collaborate in order to innovate and inspire while trying to predict what the
future holds.
Using
cloud-based services increases efficiency, provides cost savings, and enables
“collective intelligence” to flourish.
Not-for-profit memory institutions such as libraries, archives, and
museums are also making use of cloud-based services. To name a few, OCLC’s WorldCat, HathiTrust,
OAISTER, and Europeana are providing web scale discovery services and
aggregated data repositories accessible through the Net. Yet, information organizations and memory
institutions should go beyond the cloud-based services to reap the full
benefits of the digital age.
“Beyond the
Cloud: Information…Innovation…Collaboration…” being the main theme of the
Symposium, IMCW2013 aims to bring together information professionals, computer
and information scientists, business people and engineers to discuss the
implications of cloud computing on information management and to contemplate on
how to design and develop innovative and collaborative information services
beyond the cloud. As organizers, we thought this is an opportune time for
IMCW2013 to review the challenges for information organizations, libraries,
archives and museums providing information services in the digital age. Such challenges range from developing useful
services and workflows embedded in users’ work and study environments to
benefitting from economies of scale by pooling resources, eliminating
redundancies and innovating through collaboration.
CONTRIBUTIONS
Contributions
can be theoretical as well as technical and practical. Informative case studies
are also welcome. The audience will be information professionals, librarians,
archivists, computer and information scientists, and business people, among
others.
We accept extended abstracts (no less than 750
words) for full papers; short communications, Research in Progress reports and
posters on all aspects of innovative and collaborative information management. Extended abstracts for student papers and posters are also welcome. Extended
abstracts of PhD students to present the interim findings of their ongoing
research will also be considered. Please use the template available on the
Symposium web site to prepare your contributions and send them to us using the
Conference Management Software (openconf) by March 4, 2013.
We also accept proposals to organize workshops,
panel sessions and short visual presentations (“pecha kucha”). Proposals should include a
title, a short abstract, proposal type (eg, workshop), the name and contact
information of the convener (for sessions and pecha kucha) and be addressed to
imcw@bilgiyonetimi.net by March 4, 2013.
Accepted
extended abstracts and proposals will appear in the “Book of Abstracts” to be
published prior to the Symposium.
Accepted extended abstracts may be developed as
full papers by May 27, 2013. A short list of papers will be selected so that the revised and extended
versions of these papers and posters will appear in the proceedings book to be
published by Springer under its Communications in Computer and Information
Science (CCIS) series and the Symposium web site (decision pending). Papers that appear in Springer’s CCIS series
are indexed in Thomson Reuter’s Conference Proceedings Citation Index.
MAIN TOPICS
Main topics
of the Symposium include (but not limited with) the following:
·
Challenges of Information Management
in the Digital Age
Developing digital information services
Semantic information management
Information management in the cloud
Distributed collection management and licensing
Innovative information management
Collaborative information management
Infrastructures
and networks for information management
Systems,
tools and services for information management
Virtual
research environments and information management
Community
of practices
Data
ownership
Data
security
Long-term
stability of data
Privacy
Economies
of scale
·
Cloud-based Information Services
Web-based
services
Data-centric
services
Services
lifecycle management
Information
management in the cloud
Web scale
information discovery through the cloud
Data
aggregation and data repositories in the cloud
Innovative
uses of cloud-based information services
Infrastructure
as a Service (IaaS) for Information Management
Platforms
as a Service (PaaS) for Information Management
Applications
as a Service (AaaS) for Information Management
Software as
a Service (SaaS) for Information Management
Storage as
a Service (SaaS) for Information Management
Everything
as a Service (EaaS) for Information Management
·
Information Discovery, Organization,
and Retrieval Beyond the Cloud
Information
discovery and identification
Information
representation
Information
search, indexing and retrieval
Curation,
preservation and long-term access
Mobile
information retrieval
Metadata
harvesting
Metadata
extraction
Metadata
management
Metadata
interoperability and standards
Ontology
development
Ontology
mapping
Mining
large data sets
·
Information Architecture for
Cloud-based Information Services
Information
architecture and web design for the cloud
Grid
Networks, services and applications
Service
Oriented Architecture
Designing
usable cloud services
Information
usability
Interaction
design for cloud services
Information
visualization tools
·
Scholarly Publishing, Open Access
and Institutional Repositories
Scholarly
publishing process
Open access
Institutional
repositories beyond the cloud
Digital libraries
beyond the cloud
Data
warehouses and federated databases beyond the cloud
E-publishing
Open
science
Open access
to publicly funded scientific information
European
Infrastructure for e-Science Digital Repositories (e-SciDR)
·
Digital Preservation of Scientific
and Cultural Heritage Beyond the Cloud
Digitization
of scientific and cultural heritage
Digital
science museums and digital exhibitions
Digitization
of 2-D and 3-D scientific and cultural heritage objects
Digital
re-discovery of culture
The
European Digital Library, Europeana, beyond the cloud
Permanent
archiving of digital scientific and cultural heritage beyond the cloud
·
Social and Cultural Issues Beyond
the Cloud
Digital
information policies
Intellectual
property rights
Digital
rights management
Legal and
cultural issues
Value of
information (VOI)
Information
quality standards
·
Education for Information Management
Blended
librarianship
Cloud
librarianship
E-science
librarianship
Data
curation education
Information
stewardship
Biomedical
informatics
Environmental
informatics
Bioinformatics
Digital
humanities, arts and e-social sciences
Support
services for researchers, students and general public
Life-long
learning
Information
literacy
ORGANIZERS
Hacettepe
University Department of Information Management, Turkey
Limerick
Institute of Technology, Ireland
IMPORTANT DATES
First Call:
October 2012
Second
Call: December 2012
Third Call:
February 2013
Last date
to send all types of extended abstracts and proposals: 04 March 2013
Authors
notification: 22 April 2013
Submission
of extended abstracts in final form: 17 May 2012
Registration
starts: May 18, 2013
Submission
of full papers (if desired): 14 June 2013
Symposium:
4-6 September 2013
All
suggestions and comments are welcome. Please send us your ideas about possible
invited speakers at imcw@bilgiyonetimi.net.
Twitter hashtag:
#imcw2013
